Operation Flood: The world's largest development project,
it covers some nine million milk producers. Rural processing capacity of
19.4 million litres per day (mlpd) has been created and 6.7 mlpd
equivalent of chilling capacity set up to ensure better quality milk. Milk
marketing facilities of 10 mlpd have also been commissioned. ASIAN BUFFALO The Asian countries have been producing
over 96 per cent of the world's buffalo milk output, estimated at 48
million tonnes. India accounts for more than 50 per cent of it. The recent
formation of the Asian Buffalo Association will help overcome the neglect
that the buffalo has suffered for decades.